On 6/8/05, Ed Schaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > down a bit, but still be high-quality. > > Ok, so I recently got a ibook. One of the main reasons I got it was to > get away (for a short time at least) from the rather screwed up x86 > architecture. Hopefully the proprietary apple stuff will at least keep > them from having a rather screwed up BIOS (although no open firmware > makes wonder, I guess there are still suns). A chip that still boots in > 8bit mode, uses a CISC instruction set externally but a RISC instruction > set internally (that you can't access I might add), and has only 4 general > purpose registers (even the 8bit micros I'm working with have 32) makes > me a bit dubious on the ``high-quality'' bit. > > X86 chips have two things going for them: fast and cheap. > > First IDE and then this. I guess I'm more than a little disappointed.
You could always go home and pop in a high-quality Beta tape to watch for comfort :-) Bryan -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
